Lisbon

So my book Besties and Crime peaked at number 14 on Amazon's LGBTQ plus thrillers bestsellers list.

I traveled to Seattle, Alaska, Lisbon and Marrakesh.

I got named to Philly's business of pride list.

I'm on fire.

In Portugal, meanwhile, the main demand was affordable housing.

People marched in Lisbon, continuing a movement that began October 10th in the city of Porto, calling on the government to address the country's housing crisis.

The protesters also opposed new policies from Prime Minister Luis Montenegro.

that would weaken a limit on annual rent increases and make it easier to evict people who are unable to make rent payments.

Another weekend adds to the list of European cities overturned by protests.

Lisbon, Turin, Porto, Rome.

What else should citizens do for Brussels to understand that not only Kyiv's war needs matter? So she's saying that she's kind of mocking what's going on.

Look, they have all these problems and they're only focused on Kyiv.

But no matter where they were from, or who they prayed to, or how they made their money, my grandpa said that they could always be divided into one of two categories, the kind and the a-holes.

And the man from Lisbon most definitely fell under the kind category.

Grandpa said that one morning in the summer of 1940, a very smartly dressed Portuguese man checked into the hotel.

Grandpa could tell that he was Portuguese from the way he spoke Spanish, like his accent I mean, and from the way he dressed and he seemed either very wealthy, very important, or both.

The police searched high and low for him, but he was nowhere to be found.

They put up checkpoints on roads surrounding Madrid as well in the hopes of cutting off his escape, but no one fitting his description was ever stopped.

Police at the border between Spain and Portugal were alerted too and they must have kept a particularly close eye out for anyone named Felix, but they never did find that man from Lisbon.

It was like he'd vanished into thin air.

I'm Eddie Arrieta, CEO at Multilingual Media, and I'm here to tell you that the language industry has spent the last few years talking extensively about AI, transformation, new business models, changing careers, and the future of localization.

But perhaps the more interesting question now is, are we having the right conversations about those changes? That question is at the heart of World Ready Lisbon 2027, taking place April 12th to the 14th in Lisbon, or if you are like me, from the 10th to the 20th in Lisbon, Portugal, under the theme Real Problems, Honest Talks for an Industry in Transition.

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Instead, the organization is looking for practical innovation, lessons from experiments that didn't work, or resolve challenges and ideas capable of generating real debate.

That is good.

That is good.

Thank you so much for talking about World Ready Lisbon 2027.

Are you excited about World Ready 2027, Isabella, Alison?

Like, the highest... scale earthquake that I can find any record of is a 9.5. Yeah.

Was that Krakatoa or Lisbon in the 17th century?

I don't think that, like, the issue you run into is that I don't think that those, like, we have a proper magnitude for, just because, like, The measurement can't be as accurate as that would require.

I

just know that the Lisbon earthquake reportedly destroyed northwest Iberia and was felt as far north as Norway.

Yeah.

A 9.9 would likely essentially obliterate large portions of Japan.

It's changed a lot.

Americans are moving to Lisbon, Mexico City, Costa Rica, Madrid, Toronto.

Berlin.

Now, a few hundred thousand people leaving per year is a small number compared to 330 million residents.

This is not the army deploying, this is not the Portuguese army deploying against mass protests.

preparations for army day which took place in the city from the 20th of 25th of October so it just finished just concluded now according to the city of Porto's official website the events saw thousands of soldiers to come to the city for a multi-day program of events showcasing military might there's also no credible reports of the army actually being deployed against the portuguese protesters so far these protests have been managed by the police in portugal not the army the latest is that the portuguese police in both porto and lisbon dismantled housing protest camps early on sunday there were scores of people arrested but our viral video that we saw there is not the army being deployed against recent demonstrations in Portugal calling for affordable housing.

It's actually misrepresenting the situation.

Now, what's even crazier is I've just debunked this video, but I've now seen it again circulate on TikTok, this time claiming to show the French army being deployed here in France, and that's despite the Portuguese architecture visible in the background.